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Gempler's was sold in 2003 to Lab Safety Supply and the owners retained Duluth Trading Company. [3] Two years later in 2005, the first women's catalog was released. [2] In 2011, Duluth Trading Company aired its first nationwide ads featuring an angry beaver. [4] Duluth Trading Company's parent, Duluth Holdings, went public in 2015. [5]
Duluth's bridge was inspired by the one in France, though the actual construction is quite different. The architect was a city engineer, Thomas McGilvray. [1] When it was completed in 1905, the Aerial Bridge's gondola had a capacity of 60 short tons (54 tonnes) and could carry 350 people plus wagons, streetcars, or automobiles.
The Duluth Works was an integrated steel plant which took several raw materials and combined them in furnaces to make a product. Of those raw materials, iron ore, which was mined 70 miles (110 km) away from the Duluth Works on the Iron Range, was in plentiful and nearby supply, but coal, limestone and other materials were also needed to make steel.
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Duluth (/ d ə ˈ l uː θ / ⓘ də-LOOTH) is a port city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and is the county seat of St. Louis County. Located on Lake Superior in Minnesota's Arrowhead Region, the city is a hub for cargo shipping. The population was 86,697 at the 2020 census, [5] making it Minnesota's fifth-largest city.
The Duluth Air Defense Sector (DUADS) is an inactive United States Air Force organization. Its last assignment was with the Air Defense Command 29th Air Division , being stationed at Duluth Airport , Minnesota .
The Duluth, Missabe and Northern Railway (DM&N) was a railroad company in the U.S. state of Minnesota. It was one of the earliest iron ore hauling railroads of the area, said to have built the largest iron ore docks in the world, and later was one of the constituent railroads in the merger that formed the Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range Railway .
In 1937 it passed to the Duluth, Missabe, and Iron Range Railway on the merger of the DM&N with the Duluth and Iron Range Rail Road. In 1955 locomotives 332 and 348 (also a C3) were sold to the Duluth and Northeastern Railroad and renumbered 28 and 27 respectively. No. 28 saw regular service on the D&NE between Cloquet, Saginaw, and Duluth ...